New Color Theme ideas

zac
Staff

Created: 6 years and 6 months ago

We're interested in adding a few more pre-loaded themes to the Settings panel. Currently, we have a Dark theme ( Settings -->Color tab -->Color theme) but we're curious to know which themes our Duck.co community would like to see as options.

Please use this thread to submit the URL parameters for your custom theme : )

**URL parameters can be found in the Settings menu under, "Bookmarklets and settings data."

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Nah. I've worked in advertising and I know the importance of branding. The website needs a consistent house style that sets it apart from competitors and more importantly, is recognisable to potential customers.

Apple, for instance has a consistent house style across all its products and works carefully so this effect is achieved. It uses the same font in all its logos and ads, shades of grey everywhere and a recognisable style for its hardware products. The iMac became black at the back and sharpish around the edges so to match the iPhone design. Apple's peripherals, such as the keyboard, have been adapted to this design.

It is very important to find a visually appealing house style and stick with it. I am very fond of the red banner, which is much better than the old green one. Don't change it. If you will, make the adjustments obvious and adjust other websites in the DDG sphere (DuckDuckHack, this forum, the help centre et al) to match it. That's my advice to Mr Weinberg.

I'm liking the dark themes. :-) But I find the default color of the bar on the bottom a bit jarring (It's very bright, high contrast in comparison to the rest of the dark theme.) It's also quite hard to read the light-grey text for me.

The green search button also pops out a lot :\ I feel like it doesn't blend super well with the dark theme.

Overall I really like your current dark theme. Similar to the Background I suggest also adding "Links Background", "Links Border" (a thin border around the rectangle of links), and also to add the ability to fade the region borders instead of a crisp line.Also taken from how in new mobile phones there is a mode that icons start to wobble and one can move them, I suggest a special mode that in DDG different elements could be colored (maybe with a pallet near them), or moved around, this would be easier for people to select colors for different elements, instead of a possible growing list of names of elements.sometimes I wish I could grab the 0-click and move it (and dock it) to some other place. I should confess I do not know how hard it is to do something like that.

I would like to see a theme based upon the userstyle MrMagical was working on. I don't believe he ever did post a final version. Here is the link https://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-simple-userstyle. If something like that could be created for a theme it would be awesome. I would actually like to see it as the default theme.Just my two cents worth.Bee.keeper

I've written in on the feedback page on this one. The current color scheme and the theme options are hurting new user conversion. There is a reason why bing, Yahoo, Ask and Google share the same color schemes on their SERP. The standardized colors of Blue Title, green link, and dark grey text are standardized. If anything, create a new theme for that purpose.

I don't think anyone recognises these as standards apart from the blue title (which DDG already has). I, for one, didn't know there's an established standards for links to be green on SERPs.

I think it's mostly fine as it is, though the DDG developers should make trials to see if links don't look out of place in green colour. Dark red for links is a bit too harsh and doesn't go well with the overall layout.

Oh, I turned off keyboard shortcuts because I regularly use the arrow/page/home keys to navigate on my laptop and it's weird when they don't behave the same way on search engine pages that they do on every other page. You can adjust that in settings.

You can tweak the look/feel in the Settings menu: https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html and you can see the resulting URL with your settings by clicking, "Bookmarklet and Settings data" on the bottom left of that page.

I like the default, red top and green button. It's great that you can customise it, but it's so time consuming. I might try something else if there were more 'themes'. The Dark theme is no good, it's too hard to read the text.

I personally prefer it with a white background - looks fresh and clean. I wonder what it would look like if you made the background to the logo purple instead of red - I think it could work. I also think the search button should stay as green when you search something, not turn blue as it currently does. On the whole though I think it's very good as it is. I also think you should put the 'More' menu on the homepage somewhere.

A paper theme, it would maybe be more than just a colour scheme, but if it could look like the old yellowish slightly crumpled paper that could be cool. As an option. THe default theme is good as a default though.